If memory serves, TSC sync is an option when configuring a custom
2.4x series kernel.....perhaps this is so for 2.6x as well?
hv
Mikhail Kuzminsky wrote:
> As I remember, TSCs in SMP/x86 are synchronized by Linux kernels at the
> boot process.
> But the only message (about TSC) I see after Linux boot in dmesg (or
> /var/log/messages) in SuSE 10.3 w/2.6.22 default kernel on quad-core
> dual socket Opteron serever is
>> "Marking TSC unstable due to TSCs unsynchronized"
>> Does it means that RDTSC-based timer (I use it for microbenchmarks) will
> give wrong results ? :-(
>> Some additional information,
> according Software Optimization Guide for AMD Familly 10h Processors
> (quad-core) from Apr 4th, 2008:
>> Early each AMD core had own TSC. Now quad-core processors have one
> common clock source in NorthBridge (BTW, is it in this case integrated
> into CPU chip - i.e. includes integrated memory controller and support
> of HT links ? - M.K.) - for all the TSCs of CPUs (cores ? - M.K.).
>> The synchronization accuracy should be few tens cycles.
>> Mikhail Kuzminsky
> Computer Assistance to Chemical Research Center
> Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry
> Moscow
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